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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. Tom Robbins

is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.Tom Robbins

is not in regarding different things similarly, it is in regarding different things differently.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. Tom Robbins

is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

is companionable and faintly erotic, the nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve.

A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.

is built, not found. We often waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins

is a thing which to eat raw is like french kissing a mermaid.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

is more feverish than the beet, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide... the paramount contributor to human misery.

Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.

is one who recognizes that imagination is reality's master. One who acts upon that realization we call artist or lunatics.

Those people who recognize that the imagination is reality's master we call sages, and those who act upon it we call artist or lunatics. (Tom Robbins)

is always rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

is a beverage invented by a bunch of brooding Indians into human sacrifice and pyramids.

Champagne was discovered by a Catholic monk, said Bernard. Took one swallow and burst out of his cellar yelling, 'I'm drinking stars, I'm drinking stars!' Tequila was invented by a bunch of brooding Indians. Into human sacrifice and pyramids. Somewhere between champagne and tequila is the secret history of Mexico, just as somewhere between beef jerky and Hostess Twinkies is the secret history of America. Or aren't you in the mood for epigrams?

is a beverage that has probably betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives.

Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

is a sly beverage whose rebellious drops generate confusion and mischief.

is oily and thermal like the sun in solution.

is lusty, yet there runs through it an undercurrent of frivolity.

is in February because he or she who is lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

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